Poppo of Stavelot

Saint Poppo of Stavelot was a Benedictine abbot of the monasteries of Stavelot and Malmedy in Belgium, renowned for the miracles worked through him. He was born in 978 in Flanders and reposed in 1048.

He first had a military career, then made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Rome. On his return, in 1006, he became a monk at Saint-⁠Thierry in Reims. Two years later he moved to Saint-⁠Vannes, and then to Saint-⁠Vaast in Arras. In 1021 he became abbot of Stavelot and Malmedy, and the monastic revival begun by him soon spread to other monasteries, among them Hautmont, Marchiennes, Saint Maximinus of Trier in Germany and Saint-⁠Vaast in Arras.

He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 25 January (new style).